Wireless
Electric Violin Shop offers a growing range of wireless systems suitable for electric bowed strings. From belt-pack systems to "bug" style transmitters, we've got what you've need to break free from being tethered to your amp.
All of the systems we carry and recommend are frequency diverse. This means that the systems will search for an open frequency, and they can be set to more than one frequency, unlike earlier fixed-frequency wireless systems. Many of the earlier wireless systems, especially the micro-transmitter systems that didn't require a belt pack operated on a single fixed frequency, which caused problems once the 2009 DTV roll-out began to cause interference on many of those frequencies.
Audio-Technica
Audio-Technica has long been known as one of the top manufacturers of wireless instrument and microphone systems.We carry their 3000 series wireless systems for instruments, as well as the M2 wireless in-ear monitor system. You can also pick up extra body pack receivers for the M2 system, which supports up to ten wireless receivers.
Samson Airline Synth
If you find even the short cable from your instrument to a belt pack too restrictive, then the Airline Synth from Samson may be the answer to your wireless prayers. Sporting a tiny transmitter barely larger than your thumb, the Airline Synth is the first true-diversity system in a transmitter this small.
The Airline Synth offers 300UHF channels and a range far greater than the hundred foot line-of-sight the company advertises. One of our employees took an Airline Synth-equipped NS Design violin all the way out to the street, and then around behind a building - easily 300 feet or so -- and it only cut out once, when there were three brick walls (and who knows how many interior walls) between him and the receiver.
We don't recommend playing from these distances (or from behind a building!) for a performance, but it's good to know that if you're just a little past the hundred-foot mark, you'll probably be okay.